Can salmon run players PLEASE start putting more than 2 braincells together when they get the fucking hydra? Please????????
I was so excited for this salmon run rotation because ohh cool! Hydra splatling! That’s my main! I love that weapon!
AND I TAKE IT BACK BECAUSE NOBODY FUCKING KNOWS HOW TO USE IT. I am so tired of watching whichever random gets hydra JUMP HEADFIRST INTO A POOL OF ENEMIES AND START WADDLING AROUND LIKE AN IDIOT TRYING TO CHARGE THEIR FAT ASS IMMOBILE INK GUZZLING WEAPON. The hydra splatling has a long range for a REASON, GET ON TOP OF THAT ELEVATED PART OF THE MAP AND FUCKING USE IT! Believe it or not it’s actually a pretty useful weapon when you can actually use it as intended instead of getting cornered and mauled like a dumbass because you thought that getting right up next to the enemy with a weapon that takes forever to charge and basically cripples you was a good idea!! And look I get doing this when things get really frantic and crowded like when it’s high tide and there’s shit coming at you everywhere and you’re kind of panicking or when you need to get eggs in the basket, I’ve done it too! But you know you could at least TRY not to instead of acting like a lobotomite
There was this one grillers wave where I was up high so I could shoot at the grillers as they chase my teammates, and it was going pretty well at first! Until ALL THREE OF THEM started running around the platform I was on, and when every single griller inevitably started to come up there they didn’t run away or anything no, THEY JUST STAYED THERE SO WE COULD ALL GET RUN OVER! If they’d just gotten out of my way I could have helped them take out the grillers and smallfries but noooooo
Also this game LOVES to finally give me hydra in the most easy and irrelevant waves instead of where it actually matters. Giant tornado gushers cohock charge but NEVER the king salmonid glowflies mothership etc etc, and oh my fucking god do not even get me started on mothership and king salmonid waves. Anyways if you get hydra in salmon run THEN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD:
- COVER FOR YOUR TEAMMATES!!! Adding onto the point above, YOU have a great range and great firepower from a hopefully safe distance, so if you see someone getting swarmed or cornered HELP THEM AND SHOOT AT THE STUFF ATTACKING THEM, if you see a dead teammate shouting help REVIVE THEM
And 3, for cohozuna: JUST OPEN FIRE ON IT, the massive damage that comes in a full charge is much better used on the boss itself instead of aimlessly flying around trying to splat 50 million different things that are constantly moving. Preferably you have your teammates to help cover you while you do this but obviously that’s a very high ask considering that salmon run randoms tend to have a combined iq of -50